Line-casting machine.



PATENTBD DEC. 19, 1906.

I. O. LUGKE DAIX. LINE CASTING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.19. 1905.

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PATENTED DEC. 19, 1905.

F. G. LUGKB DAIX.

LINE CASTING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.19.1905.

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LINE CASTING MACHINE.

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LINE CASTING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.19,1905.

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LINE CASTING MACHINE.

APPLIOATION FILED JAN.19.1905.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 19, 1905.

Application filed January 19, 1905. Serial No- 241,778.

T0 at whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRITZ G. LUCKE DAIX, of the city of New York, county and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Line-Casting Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to line-casting machines, and more particularly to that kind of machine (set forth, for example, in Letters Patent No. 697,859) in which the matrices are single-character matrices provided each with a plurality of character-spaces having letters or signs which are the same in all the character-spaces, but differ between themselves in style, &c., and are combined with a carrier for the composed line of matrices and means for shifting the carrier in order to bring the desired line of type-faces on such matrices into casting position in front of the castingmold.

The invention consists in certain improvements on this kind of line-casting machine, which will first be described in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, and will then be more particularly pointed out in the claims.

In said drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a portion of a line-casting machine illustrating my improvements. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same with the mold removed. In this figure the complete composed line of matrices is not shown, but merely a few at each end of the line. Fig. 3 is a section of the same on line A B, Figs. 1 and 1. Fig. 4: is a section on line C D, Fig. 2. Fig. 5 shows one of the adjusting-pieces and one of: the space-bands,

together with part of a cast line, the front of the cast line facing the space-band. Fig. 6 is a side elevation and cross-section on E F of one of the space-bands. Fig. 7 is a side elevation of a line-casting machine, showing the general arrangement of parts on this side of the machine, but more particularly the ar rangement of parts to which the application relates in casting position. Fig. 8 is an enlarged front elevation or face view of one of the matrices.

The matrices 1 (one of which is shown separate in Fig. 8) are single-character matrices provided each with a plurality of characterspaces 1 1 1 1 1 bearing letters or signs which are the same for all the characterspaces, as shown. The matrix shown in Fig.

8 has five character-spaces; but of course the number, as well as the style, of these spaces can posing-cylinder 2 is adapted to receive the matrices from the assembling-alley of the machine. (Not shown.) It has end bearings 3 in the frame 4, Figs. 1 and 7 which latter forms part of a similarly-designated annulus or cylinder 4:, Fig. 1, which is mounted and can revolve in the stationary main frame 7 of Y the machine, one of the'side covers of which is shown at 14, Fig. 7. It may be said here, by way of mere explanation, (referring to Fig. 7,) that the frame lrevolves in the direction of the arrow thereon. X is the point at which the matrices are received from the assem blingalley and entered into the carrier. Y is the casting position of the carrier opposite to the mouth of the mold 18, with which is associated, as usual, the casting-pot 19, andZ is the point where the matrices are ejected t0 the distributing-alley. The automatic shifting of the carrier to bring the desired line of character-spaces is effected during the travel of the carrier and its frame 4 between the points X and Y by mechanism which will be presently described, although, as will also .be more particularly described presently, the carrier while it is in casting position can be shifted by hand as often as desired. The general mechanism of the machine (shown in Fig. 7 does not, however, require further description here, forming no part of the invention of the present application. It is also to be remarked that in Figs. 1 and 4 the arrangement is such that matrices may be shifted not automatically, as in Fig. 7, but by hand and while the composing-cylinder is in casting position.

Confining attention more particularly to Figs. 1 to {l the composing-cylinder or carrier 2 has a projection or finger 5, which is in the path of and adapted to be struck by teeth 6 6, &c., on a small wheel 6, mounted to revolve in suitable bearings in the stationary main frame 7 On the hub of the wheel 6 is fixed the bandle 13, by which the wheel is rotated, said handle having a spring detent-pin 13 to enter any one of a series of holes or sockets in the index plate or disk 13, (which is fastto the main frame 7,) and thus hold the wheel 6 in its adjusted position. The teeth 6 6*, &:c., are of varying lengths, the shortest in front, and by rotating the wheel 6 in the direction of the arrow, so as-to strike the finger 5 with one or more of the teeth 6*, &c., the composing-cylinder will be rotated in the direction of the arrow thereon to bring into casting position the particular line of character-spaces of the matrices corresponding to the tooth 6, &c., which is the last to act on the composing-cylinder, each one of the teeth and the hole in the index 13 appropriate thereto corresponding to one of the character-spaces on the matrix. A spring 8, Fig. 4, confined between a shoulder 8 on the cylinder 2 and a shoulder 8 on the frame 4, tends to rotate the cylinder in a direction opposite to that in which it is moved by the striking teeth on wheel 6. A stop 9 on the frame 4 in the path of the shoulder 8 on the cylinder limits the rotary motion of the cylinder 2 in that direction. To look the composing-cylinder in its adjusted position, I make use of a vertically -movable lockingplate 10, which has its hearings in frame 4 above the composing-cylinder 2 and is adapted to enter-the space between the adjoining ribs on the latter, as seen in Fig. 4. It is pressed downwardly by a spring 12 and is raised against the stress of that spring by a lever 11, pivoted on a horizontal axis in the frame 4 and entering at its inner end a slot 10 in the lock-plate. The outer end or tail of this lever forms a handle by which the lever may be operated either by hand or automatically, and in the arrangement shown in the drawings this tail or handle end when the composing'cylinder is in casting position projects through a slot 7 (see Figs. 4, 7 in the main frame 7, so as to leave the locking-plate 10 free to engage the composing-cylinder 2.

In the arrangement shown in Fig. 7 the lever 11 is automatically operated. When the rotating frame 4 and the composing-cylinder 2, mounted thereon, leave the casting position and travel from that position around to the positions marked successively Z and X, the tail of the lever 11 is wiped down under the solid portion of frame 7 thus lifting the locking-plate 10 and leaving the composingcylinder free to turn in its bearings. The slot 7 is so located that during the travel between the points X andYthe tail of the lever 11 will reach slot 7 just after the composing-cylinder 2 has been acted on and adjusted and will thus be released, permitting the locking-plate 10 to descend and engage the composing-cylinder 2.

The space-bands 15 are mounted on a carrier distinct from the composing-cylinder 2, which carries the matrices. This carrier is on frame 4, in which the composing-cylinder has its bearings, and is so arranged that the spacebands are held thereon in a position in which they are substantially tangential to the composing-cylinder 2. The space-band carrier consists of two undercut ribs 4*, which extend the length of the cylinder 2 and are located one above and one below the cylinder and parallel with the axis of the latter. The two ing-pot.

undercut ribs 4 form, in eifect,a dovetail frame on which are mounted the correspondinglydovetailed space-bands 15. One of these bands is shown separately in Fig. 6. It is composed, as customary, of the two outer tapered pieces 15", the interior opposite faces of which are dovetailed to engage the dovetailed faces of the tapered sliding expander 15", which is interposed between them. The outer pieces or strips 15 have dovetail back edges 15 to engage the dovetail frame 4, and when in position on that frame they extend between the matrices and are tangential to the composing-cylinder. Owing to this arrangement and to the fact that the space-bands are held independent of the composing-cylinder, it will be seen and understood that after the line of matrices and space-bands has been once composed and set up, the composingcylinder can be rotated to bring any desired line of type-faces into position, the matrices sliding between the space-bands, which remain motionless.

The composed line of matrices and spacebands is held between end pieces 16 orsetting pieces, as I term them, which are also mounted on the frame 4 and are dovetailed, as seen more plainly in Fig. 5, to engage the latter. These setting pieces have each a tongue 16, these tongues being designed to form the sides of the mold and to determine the length and thickness of the cast line. At 20, Fig. 3, are indicated blocks which hold the setting pieces in position. A part of the mold is shown at 18, consisting of top and bottom plates or jaws between which the tongues 16 extend, and 19, Fig. 1, indicates the mouth of the melt- These particular features, however, need not be gone into here, inasmuch as they form no partof the present invention and, moreover, are fully described and illustrated in my companion application for improvements in line-casting machines, filed March 29, 1905, Serial No. 252,640.

The presser-plate for operating the spacebands is shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 4 at 17.

Itis carried by rods 17, which extend through index-plate 13, corresponding to that tooth of wheel 6, which will give the required throw to bring the desired type-face on the matrix 1 into proper casting position relatively to mold 18. In doing this no shifting or change of the space-bands takes place, and thus it is feasible to shift the matrices, with their varying type-faces, independently of the spacebands without derangement of the latter and without having to distribute the matrices or compose a new line. ThisI believe to be new with me beyond its structural embodiment hereinbefore described and illustrated.

VVhatIclaim, therefore, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

1. In a line-casting machine, a matrix-carrier adapted to receive a line of matrices pro vided each with a plurality of type faces, and movable to bring the desired line of typefaces into casting position, in combination with an independent space-band carrier, which receives and holds the space-bands which enter and form part of the composed line, whereby the matrices in the composed line may be shifted to bring any desired line of type-faces into casting position, without deranging the space-bands and while the latter remain at rest, substantially as hereinbefore set forth.

2. In a line-casting machine a matrix-carrying cylinder adapted to receive a line of matrices having a plurality of type-faces and rotatable to bring any desired line of type-faces into casting position, in combination with a separate and independent space-band-carrying frame arranged tosupport the space-bands in position substantially tangential to the matrix-carrying cylinder, substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth.

3. In a line-castin g machine a rotatable matriX-carrying cylinder adapted to receive a line of matrices having a plurality of typefaces, arevoluble frame in which said cylinder is mounted and by which it is conveyed successively to the assembling, casting and distributing points and means whereby the cylinder, during its travel between the assembling and casting points is automatically rotated to bring the selected line of type-faces into position for casting, and then locked in its adjusted position, substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth.

4:. In a line-casting machine, a rotatable matrix-carrying cylinder adapted to receive a line of matrices having a plurality of type-faces, a revoluble frame in which said cylinder is mounted and by which it is conveyed to the assembling, casting and distributing points successively, and means whereby the matrixcylinder, while the revoluble frame remains at the casting-point, may be shifted at will to bring another line of type-faces in position for casting, and be locked in this new position, substantially as hereinbefore set forth.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FRITZ C. LUCKE DAIX.

Witnesses:

O. MUSSINAN, G. BUECHNER. 

